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Lindsey Hilsum blogs on the resumption of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians in Washington next month.
The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has invited the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu to resume direct talks in Washington next month.
Hezbollah’s leader says he doesn’t expect conflict to follow Lebanon’s dispute with Israel, but four years since the war was at its height, his comments spark concern between the two countries.
Lindsey Hilsum blogs on Turkey’s strategy towards Israel and Hamas following last week’s killing of nine activists during the storming of an aid flotilla.
If you’ve just been in Gaza, as I have, it’s quite hard to watch the spoof video made by a group of Israelis called Latma (it means “slap” in Hebrew slang) and distributed by the Israeli government press office, which has been posted on YouTube. The government has apologised now, but the damage is done. In…
The visit to Washington this week by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu comes at a tense time in US-Israeli relations. Yet everyone will take great care to be extremely polite and try to say just the right thing. It feels a bit like an awkward family gathering where no one dares mention a recent,…
Jon Snow
Here’s an intriguing statistic: since the introduction of air marshals on US airlines after 9/11, just four people have been arrested on suspicion of terrorism on-board an airliner. That represents a cost of $200m per arrest.
Jon Snow
An intriguing PS to my Biden blog. I mentioned the 22 Palestinian homes in the line of the Israeli bulldozers’ blades in East Jerusalem. Even I could not have predicted that as the wheels of Joe Biden’s vice presidential craft hit the Israeli runway tarmac, Israel would announce a vast planned “illegal” development in East…
Jon Snow
Put simply, he’s in Israel to try to dissuade the Israelis from bombing Iran. There remains a strong thread of opinion inside the Israeli cabinet that argues that Iran is building a nuclear bomb and needs to be stopped in its tracks. Reportedly, Israel does not have a supply of the American developed deep bunker…
Followers of Channel 4 News’s story about the Somali suicide bomber who grew up in London might be interested in this link from The Jerusalem Post… US-Somali youth join jihad in Somalia Channel 4 is not responsible for the content of external sites.
Jon Snow
Given that Israel voted yesterday on the heels of the recent Gaza conflict, I thought I would return to a blog I did during my visit to shoot a Dispatches programme, Unseen Gaza, last month. Here it is. There is nothing quite so instructive as the 5.00am start from Jerusalem down the highway to Ben…
A row has broken out between the United Nations and the Israel Defence Force over an incident in Gaza during the 22-day-long war. In the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, a piece announced yesterday that: “The United Nations has reversed its stance on one of the most contentious and bloody incidents of the recent Israel Defence Forces…
Jon Snow
Landing at Heathrow this morning, well slept on my BA flight from Washington, I suddenly recall an experience I had last week coming in from Jerusalem. I had been there for tonight’s Dispatches (Gaza Unseen at 11pm tonight, Channel 4). This is the mental blog I made at the time – Strangely, these days a…